Do you wanna build a playlist?

Happy 2026, Reader, I have plenty of thoughts about goals and resolutions and fresh starts (the good, the bad, the eye-roll inducing), but what’s been on my mind lately is… MTV. I saw a rumor a few days ago that MTV had shut down, which turns out not to be true. But if you’re anything like me, your first reaction might’ve been, Wait—was MTV even still a thing? I honestly thought it disappeared years ago, right alongside the version of music television my generation grew up with. Because that...